Chapter 40: Choice
Early the next morning, the two beasts continued their search.
However, after noon, the cliff in the distance was clearly presented in front of the two of them, and there was still no trace of Ellene.
Ouyang reluctantly took Huo Jiasi to climb the stone wall, which was considered to be the last part of the journey.
Ouyang sat on a stone at the top of the stone wall, looking at the sea where the red sun was gradually falling in a daze, Huo Jiasi sat beside him and snuggled on his shoulder, climbing this stone wall, but the already weak Beamon sacrifice was exhausted.
Kaka kept smashing stones with that bone and throwing them into the sea, busy and happy, this heartless little thing had not worried about Ellene's safety all these days.
Suddenly, a column of water erupted on the surface of the sea, and when the splash dispersed, the mermaid princess Miriam surfaced.
Seeing her appearance, Ouyang jumped into the sea from a fish leap on the high wall in an excited way, and splashed the water with a bang, and his series of actions made Huo Jiasi, who was originally leaning on his shoulder, unstable in his center of gravity, stumbling on the stone, and almost falling into the sea with him, and even scared Mirien, who was looking around, and almost sank into the water.
"Luke, you're scared me to death. Mirien steadied herself and called out to Ouyang who was splashing out of the water.
"Any news from Elle?"
Looking at Ouyang with an expectant face, Mirien shook her head,
"No, I've searched the whole sea, and I haven't heard from her, I'm sorry to disappoint you. ”
Hearing the news brought by Mirien, Ouyang was stunned for a while, and suddenly, he closed his eyes, folded his hands, and sighed: "Resign yourself to fate!"
Miriam wondered what Luke's strange behavior meant when she heard the disappointing news. only to find that when Lu Kai opened his eyes again, his face swept away the depression of recent days, and his eyes showed two fine lights, as if he had changed into a person in an instant.
"Thank you, my friend! After saying that, she swam towards the shore, and Mirien looked at Ouyang's strange changes, shook her head, and swam towards the shore as well.
When the two of them arrived at the shore, Huo Jiasi had already walked down from the high wall with the two little beasts, and she saw the confusion on Ouyang's face swept away, thinking that there was already news of Erlini.
"What, Lukey, there's already news of El?"
Ouyang walked out of the water, wiped the water on his face, shook his head and said, "No, there is no news of her in the nearby seas, let it be fate." After tonight, tomorrow we will return to the Beamon Empire. I have something to do without her!"
In any case, that dream of Cadore, he has decided to carry it.
"Oh. Huo Jiasi answered, but she didn't know how to answer, the words of comfort had already been spoken, and now Ouyang seemed to have seen it.
"Lukey, are you heading inland tomorrow?" Mirien, who was behind her, followed up, her eyes down, as if she was making a decision.
Ouyang and Huo Jiasi turned their eyes, only to find that Mirien did not "walk" ashore by herself, but rode on a strange horse.
The horse under her seat was covered in bony armor, with a curled tail behind its buttocks, and its four legs were strong and powerful, but the joints were covered with bone spurs, and it looked like a huge seahorse with four horse legs.
Seeing the puzzled gazes of the two, Mirien smiled and patted her mount, "This is my seahorse mount Dora Epo, that is, the seahorse from before, isn't it handsome?"
"That's good, how can a seahorse grow legs?"
Ouyang was curious, he didn't know what to say, now it's Kaka, then Lulu, and now there's a seahorse Dora Aibo, could it be that the demonic beasts on the Lothema Continent look so strange?
"Are you leaving tomorrow?"
"Yes, I'll go to the Beamon Empire with Huo Jiasi tomorrow, I don't know when we will meet in the future. ”
Ouyang nodded, feeling a little regretful, he and the mermaid princess had only met twice for a short time, and now they were going to separate again.
"That...... Can I go with you, I want to see the scenery of the land, so I brought Dora Aipo with me, and I'm also a very powerful water magician, so I won't be a burden to you with me. She paced Dora Apo back and forth a few steps to prove that she could move on land, and then fired a water arrow that knocked a rock Kaka had thrown away.
"Okay. Ouyang nodded in agreement.
"No!" Before Milion could rejoice, she heard Hogarth's refusal.
"Little ferret, you're against me again!"
Mirien was almost distorted by Huo Jiasi's anger, she had always hoped to go to the land to see, but the mermaid could not leave the water for a long time, and the contact with the earth element in an environment lacking the water element for a long time would weaken the mermaid's vitality, so she never landed on the shore. Now with the Imperial Earth Bead given by Ouyang, she ignited her hope of going to the mainland, and Ouyang also nodded and agreed, but she didn't expect that at this time, the little ferret refused sideways, and she still put on the posture of Ouyang's mentor to refuse. It's not against her or something!
"Huo Jiasi, why can't you?"
"Hmph, do you know what it means for a mermaid princess to come to land? For those frivolous nobles, it is the best slave, a priceless treasure, and bringing this mermaid princess with you means attracting countless slave traders and mercenaries, anyway, taking her is a big trouble. Don't forget, those slave traders can slaughter a village of Beamon for a few female ferret slaves, and her beautiful fishtail will surely cause us a lot of trouble!"
Huo Jiasi taught her apprentice with a serious face, and taught the mermaid princess a lesson by the way.
"Wouldn't it be okay to put away the fishtail?" Ouyang mentioned.
"Yes, unless you can put the tail away, you won't want to go to land for the rest of your life. ”
Following Ouyang's words, the little ferret said coercively.
Ouyang didn't know what it meant for a mermaid to put away her fishtail, but Huo Jiasi knew very well that a virgin mermaid would never have the ability to transform her legs, and only when a mermaid got married could she change her legs and have the ability to walk on land.
"Hee-hee, I took your first kiss anyway, if you want to go with us, I don't mind if Luke helps you gain the ability to change your legs. Huo Jiasi sincerely suggested.
"It's okay, how can I help you?" Ouyang still took the initiative. Huo Jiasi seemed to have something to say, but for his friends, Ouyang never spared his help, and Mirien also gave him a lot of help.
"You...... You bastard!" the mermaid princess scolded angrily, and an arrow of water rushed towards Huo Jiasi, obviously very angry.
The two were not far away, and the water arrow came to Huo Jiasi in an instant before Ouyang could react.
"Ahh
"Hey, why do you move!" Ouyang stopped loudly.
Seeing that Huo Jiasi had not been hurt, Miriam had already chanted another magic, and obviously would not give up.
"Holy!"
Ouyang saw a beam of water arrows condensed around Mirien, and immediately scolded angrily, but he couldn't stop Mirien's chanting, after a long time of magic training with Erlene, he knew that interrupting a mage's chanting would cause magic backlash and cause damage to the caster.
Scolding and scolding, he immediately stepped forward to block in front of Huo Jiasi, and the snail shell at his wrist instantly turned into a shield in front of him.
I saw a wave of water arrows with a roaring sound that had come to Ouyang, radiating the last rays of the setting sun, which was extremely enchanting.
But before the water arrow could touch the shield, it had already dissipated, and it was dispersed in the air as a water element.
It is a bead of water.
Seeing that the attack was ineffective, Mirien's princess temper also came up, and once again condensed the next magic.
"Damn, you're still here. "Ouyang is really angry, what's going on with these women!
He stretched out his left hand and popped out a stream of spider silk that stuck to Mirien's bare shoulder, and with his repeated tricks, he pulled the mermaid princess off her horse and held her in his arms.
Under the effect of the water beads, the water element that had been condensed around Mirien suddenly dissipated.
"Ah~~" This time it was Mirien's turn to let out a scream, struggling in Ouyang's arms.
On the other side, Huo Jiasi, who was originally hiding in the mink tail, heard Mirien's scream, and quietly stretched out her head to take a look, when she saw the scene in front of her, she was immediately happy, put away the mink tail, and stood there looking at the mermaid princess's blushing face covering her mouth and laughing all over, and she was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and shouted:
"Lukey, kiss her!
Ouyang put away the snail shield in his right hand, turned his head to look at Huo Jiasi instigating there, and felt that it was time to deal with these two lawless women.
Another stream of spider silk popped out of his right hand, and despite Huo Jiasi's screams, he also pulled her into his arms.
The three heads touched together, Ouyang looked at the two smiling faces in front of him, and smiled evilly, "I'll let you kiss." ”
Kaka on the side saw the three of them huddled together, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, and at the same time stretched out his legs to cover Lulu's eyes, but he peeked between his fingers and giggled.
After leveling the two women, the three men and the two beasts found various places to spend the night under the high wall.
Stuffing the fire beads into Mirien's arms, the mermaid princess, who barbecued for the first time in her life, was excited to use the "Song of Tide Confusion" to attract all kinds of sea fish, regardless of whether the grilled things could be eaten or not, and excitedly pointed to Ouyang to hand the fish to her, and she sat in front of the fire and happily threw the fish in her hand into the fire, not caring that there was a pile of small mountains of "grilled fish" of various degrees behind her.
Ouyang found that these four dragon balls were really magical, like the previous water beads that could transform all the water arrows that entered a certain range of the dragon balls back into the water element, but the fire beads on Mirien's body would not extinguish the fire within this range of action, but only formed a transparent fire shield layer on the surface of her body, even if she put her hand into the fire, the flames would only avoid her hands, but they would not be extinguished. The Orb of Earth on Mirien's body will bounce away the stones, sand, and mud thrown at her, but it will not create a large hole in her feet.
The fire bead was originally given to Huo Jiasi, but in order to allow the mermaid princess to sit by the fire, Ouyang asked and paid the price of the other two dragon balls to get the fire bead, but Ouyang saw the smile on the little ferret when he held the water bead, he secretly complained in his heart, and silently slandered that she should not be a ferret, but a little fox.
After a night of fuss, the next day, the three men and two beasts set off slowly when the sun was high and began their journey to the Beamon Empire.
According to the fishermen they met two days ago, they are now on the eastern shore of the Treasure Elephant Empire, and to reach the Beamon Empire, they must cross half of the Treasure Elephant Peninsula and reach the Baiyue Forest, which is known as the "Paradise of Warcraft".
Leaving the forest, they must travel through the wilds of Godot to reach the royal capital of the Bimon Empire, the city of Pompeii.
On this journey, they must face the greedy slave traders and mercenaries of the Treasure Elephant Empire, the various demonic beasts and natives who live in the forests of Baiyue, and the goblin robbers and ogre raiders of the Godot Wasteland.
It took nearly ten days for the group to walk out of the eastern mountains of the Baoxiang Peninsula and come to the relatively flat west, which is not only the place where the entire peninsula borders the mainland, but also the Elephant Valley where the Baiyue Forest is the deepest east of the Baoxiang Empire.
Elephant Valley is not a canyon, but a mountain plain with only a few small mounds, and because it is surrounded by forests on one side and mountains on the other, this area looks like a canyon from the sky, so it is called Elephant Valley.
There is indeed a small river in the Elephant River Valley, which gathers the few westward streams in this mountainous area, and the westward flow flows through here and joins the sea, and the small river is called Elephant Creek.
There is an avenue passing through the west of the Elephant Creek, which connects the Baoxiang Peninsula and the royal capital of the Baoxiang Empire.
At this time, Ouyang and the others were resting on the west side of Xiangxi, and behind them was the road.